John BATEMAN was born about 1820 in Canterbury,
son of George and Sarah BATEMAN. John's father George was a Builder.
I'm assuming John was apprenticed to a Baker, as he was working as
a Baker in his early 20's, while he was still at home in Broad Street,
St. Mary Northgate with his family in 1840. His family: George BATEMAN,
Builder, mom Sarah, sisters Mary, Charlotte, Susannah and his brother
Richard who was a Carpenter and his other brother ... who was a Baker,
his married sister Sarah CHILD is with them with her daughter Sarah
Child who is 18 months old.

From the poll books 1830 there is an Edward
BATEMAN listed, Broad Street, Canterbury, Carpenter, George BATEMAN,
Broad Street, Canterbury, Carpenter, as well as John BATEMEN, Castle
Row, Canterbury, Carpenter

John BATEMAN married Ms. Charlotte WRIGHT,
in Blean in 1845. By the early 1850's the couple had three children,
Emma Maria, John Montague and Selina Kate, and the family is living
on Palace Street and John is working as a Baker.

*John's father died in 1850 (will of George
BATEMAN, Carpenter of Canterbury, St. Mary Northgate) May 7, 1850.
Parts of the will note:

George BATEMAN of Broad Street in the parish
of Saint Mary Northgate in the city of Canterbury and county of the
same city Carpenter...

*1838 George Bateman was a church warden
of St. Mary Northgate

GEORGE BATEMAN

Here lieth awaiting the resurrection

in Christ, the body of

GEORGE BATEMAN

of this parish who departed this life

the 5th day of April 1850 age 66 years

And of RICHARD Third son

of GEORGE and SARAH

BATEMAN

who died 7th June 1822 aged 7 years

Also EDWARD Eldest of the above

who died 7th August 1835

aged 27 years

And of SARAH Eldest daughter of

the above and wife of EDMUND CHILD

of London who died 10th of November 1841
aged 31 years

Left surviving two sons

and one daughter

Also MICHAEL Youngest son of

the above who died 16th of August

1845 aged 20 years

Twenty seventh day of November in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four ..

...Interred in the burial ground of Holy
Cross Westgate in this city and as to such worldly goods or ....

.....eight cottages or tenements with the
appurtenances ... to belonging situate lying and being in a place
called .. Coal Harbour in the parish of Saint Mary Northgate in the
said City and county of Canterbury and now in the tenure or occupation
of Laura Hayward and ... likewise ... brick built dwelling . Court
and ... a .. with the appurtenance ..... belonging situate lying and
being partly in Military road and partly in Broad Street in that said
parish of Saint Mary Northgate in the said City of Canterbury and
now in the .... or occupation of my son Edward Bateman as a yearly
tenant also two brick built cottages or tenements situate in Broad
Street in said parish of Saint Mary Northgate in the said city of
Canterbury and which are now in the tenure or occupation of the widow
Fox? and a William Jurrow? and which are adjoining to my afore named
.... ... and bakers shop which is in the tenure of my son Edward BATEMAN
all and singular of which my freehold property I give and a desist
unto the use of my wife Sarah BATEMAN and to Thomas ...Westwood of
New Military Road in that said parish of Saint Mary Northgate in the
said City of Canterbury Gentleman and to John Giddard? of Bridge Street
in the parish of Saint Paul in the said city of Canterbury Tailor
their heirs and assigns upon trust is to say upon trust by and never
the less

... not already been appreciated as aforesaid
I do will and bequeath to be equally and fairly divided between the
whole of my lawful children re.... offirst
Edward 2nd Sarah the wife of Edmund Child of London Carpenter (**)
3rd George 4th Mary Surrey? 5th John 6th Richard 7th Michael? 8th
Charlotte and 9th Susannah heirs and amongst each have and that alike
also at ......... of my brother Edward Bateman.I do will and bequeath my ... in bring and this part of one
thousand pounds in the ... ... bequeathed to me by the will of the
said Mrs. Braddon of the said parish of Saint Mary Magdalen in the
said city of Canterbury to the whole of my said lawful children their
heirs and assigns and

Witnessed by John ADMANS Senr, Bricklayer
and Joseph DEWHIRST, Schoolmaster and John ADMANS Junr Bricklayer

I have bound myself to pay to John Pi..ello
and his wife of the parish of Saint Dunstan in the Borough of Canterbury
the sum of one pound and four shillings on ... and every week during
the time of their natural lives and have also granted to George RYE?
(RIST?) a .. of my eight cottages which are situate in Coal Harbour
in the parish of Saint Mary Northgate in the city and borough of Canterbury
as is described in my said will and testement which .. will expire
in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine and I have ..
found myself to sell to the said George RYE? at the end of the said
term or before at his option the said eight cottages for the sum of
one thousand pounds I so ..fore.. that part of my said will which
.. my executors to sell the said eight cottages at the second marraige
of my said wife Sarah BATEMAN and I do hereby declare that my said
wife Sarah BATEMAN shall enjoy the rents profits and ... of the whole
of my ... ... during her widowhood .. and ..p.t so ... as may be necessary
to pay all ......which I have or may ... after into and in the case
of the second marriage of my said wife then she shall enjoy so ...
and no... as is ..

Possessed of more tenements (codicil) purchased
other freehold property which property I also .. to my said wife Sarah
Bateman, Edward Westwood and John Gibbons their heirs and assigns
upon ... which are situate in Broad Street adjoining to my own dwelling
house in the parish of Saint Mary Northgate in the said Borough of
Canterbury and which messuages or tenents are now in the occupation
of ____*Carpenter (Isaac Carpenter, Basket maker on the 1841 census)
and Foreman (Jackman?). Jereby also give and the said two mesusuages
or accour..... which are now in the tenure or occupation of the said
Carpenter and ... and __Farfuan?

Sometime between 1850 and 1860, John changed
professions and became a Photographer. This could be due to John's
connection with Jabez Hughes. John's wife Charlotte, had a sister
named Esther who married Cornelius Jabez Hughes in 1843, and Cornelius
became a photograher around 1846. In 1862 Jabez was noted as a photographer
to Queen Victoria.

The couple's daughter Fanny Ada BATEMAN
was born February 3th, 1853, at 13 Killermont Street, in Glasgow,
Scotland, and at this time Jabez Hughes was living and working as
a photographer in Glasgow at 67 Buchanan Street, which was about 1/3
of a mile from where John and Charlotte's daughter Fanny Ada BATEMAN
was born.

There was a birth of a John Edward BATEMAN
in Canterbury in 1855.

In the early 1860's John and his wife Charlotte
are living at 51 St. George's street with their children John, Selina
Kate, Charlotte, Fanny, Flora A., and Hinton Ernest Bateman. Daughter
Charlotte was born in Canterbury in 1852 and we know Fanny Ada BATEMAN
was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1853, so they could have been there
for a year or so, but they were back in Canterbury when their next
child Flora was born in 1856.

1872 - Marriage of John Montague BATEMAN,
age 24 (father John Bateman) to Elizabeth Southee MOSE, age 22 (father
Thomas Mose), marriage date December 31, 1872, Brighton, Sussex, England.
*John was staying with Elizabeth's family in London in 1871. In the
1860's Elizabeth's family were in Canterbury in St. George's Street
(where John's father also was). Elizabeth's father was a Draper.

1877 - Benevolent Fund. Subscriptions received
during February, March, April and May 1877 - John Montague Bateman,
Cairo 16s. 10d.

I found a note of a photograph by a J. Bateman
c. 1870's of a Cottage in Cambridge, Eng. (Basil Prior Photographs),
Henry Madden Library, California

In 1870's the family were at 54 St. George's
Street, John now in his early 50's continues working as a Photographer.

"The Microscopical department has been
ably represented by the original work of our Hon. Assistant Secretary,
Mr. J. Fullagar, whose painstaking investigations and beautiful delineations
of natural objects make our Association known far beyond the locality
that gives name to the Society. Mr. Fullagar's researches are published
with the transactions, illustrated by a frontispiece of actual drawings,
from the microscope of living objects, copied photographically by
the well-known photographer, Mr. Bateman of St. George's Street, Canterbury,
to whom the Society are indebted for 150 copies of which Mr. Bateman
has generously presented it." (Report of the Committee for 1880
- The East Kent Natural History Society, pub. 1881)

In the early 1880's John was still located
at 54 St. George's Street, Photographer, with wife Charlotte and his
three unmarried daughters Selena, Charlotte J. and Flora Ada.

I believe their daughter Fanny Ada Bateman
passes away in 1878, at the young age of 25 in Canterbury.

1882 Directory - John Bateman, photographer
- Exhibition Soiree of the London Photographic Society (We resume
our observations of this admirable exhibition, the doors of which
were closed on Tuesday afternoon) Mr. J. Bateman, Canterbury, had
a couple of fine pictures of the famous Cathedral in that ancient
city, with a garden scene as a foreground.

1882 - Rambles round old Canterbury, by
Francis W. Cross & John R. Hall Note.  "The illustrations
in this volume are from original sketches made during the present
year, or from pen-and-ink copies of photographs which were specially
taken by Mr. John Bateman, of Canterbury. The aim has been to illustrate
the text rather than to ornament the book."

1883 Photograph of Archbishop Benson and
group of Bishops all standing except two, the Archbishop with both
hands in front of him. Photograph of Archbishop Benson and group of
Bishops, all standing except two, the Archbishop holding gloves in
left hand. Copyright owner and author of photograph John Bateman,
Canterbury. Form completed April 4, 1883.

There is a photograph of a Francis (Frank)
J. Dawson taken before 1889, by J.Bateman, 54 St. George's Street,
Canterbury in the Medway CityArk Archives. Rochester Book Society
1797-1965

1888 - Photograph of the skull of St. Thomas
a Beckett full face, also, Photograph of the skull of St. Thomas a
Beckett right side and Photograph of the skull of St. Thomas a Beckett
left side shewing the sword cut, Photograph - full length skeleton
of St. Thomas a Beckett, Photograph of back of skull of St. Thomas
a Beckett tilted shewing fracture. Copyright owner and author of work:
John Bateman, 54 St. George's Street, Canetrbury, Kent. Names of parties
to agreement, H. G. Austin, Seneschal to the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury
and John Bateman

George Fullagar took over the premises
& the studio, as he was here in the early 1890's see Fullagar

By this time John had retired, and was living
in Deal with his wife Charlotte, and his daughter Selina.

There is a death of a Charlotte Bateman
in 1900, in Eastry, Kent, and a death of a John Bateman at age 83
in Eastry, Kent in 1903.

John G. Charlton's invoice shows that he
evenutally took over the shop at 54 St. George's street, and then
moved to Mercery Lane.

A photograph of his in the Penn State University
Library, Special Collections

(son of John Bateman, Photographer) 1925
- Death, Bateman - At 21 Station Road, Watford, on August 26, Mr.
John Montague Bateman, Pharmaceutical chemist, aged seventy-seven.
Mr. Bateman, who was a native of Canterbury, passed the Major examination
in 1871. In 1874 he was appointed pharmacist to the Khedive at Cairo,
with whom he remained until the death of the Egyptian ruler in 1895.
Mr. Bateman eventually returned to England and settled at Watford.
He was created Chevalier of the Order of the Crown of Italy in 1885,
and in 1890 he was...- Chemist & Druggist 1925 v. 103 page 349

*Victoria 1819 - 1901, Helena was
born 1846 and Louise Caroline born 1848, her husband was the Governor
General of Canada (John Duke of Argyll)